Our American Cousin (Dramatic Reading)
Tom Taylor
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Our American Cousin is an 1858 three-act play by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play is a farce whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish, but honest American, Asa Trenchard, to his aristocratic English relatives when he goes to England to claim the family estate. . . . Although the play achieved great renown during its first few years and remained very popular throughout the second half of the 19th century, it is best remembered as the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was attending in Ford's Theatre when he was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. - Summary by Wikipedia
Cast
Narrator: KHand
Asa Trenchard: Joseph Tabler
Florence Trenchard: Beth Thomas
Lord Dundreary: Rob Board
Sir Edward Trenchard: Zames Curran
Mr. Coyle: Peter Tucker
Mary Meredith: Kristin Gjerløw
Mr. Binny: ToddHW
Abel Murcott: Scott Bennett
Mrs. Mountchessington: Bev J Stevens
Georgina Mountchessington: Michele Eaton
Augusta Mountchessington: Maria Kasper
Mr. Buddicombe: Howard Watts
Harry Vernon: TenorBoy
John Wickens: VfkaBT
Captain De Boots: David Olson
Sharpe: Mary Kay
Skillet: Jessie Yun
Edited by: Rob Board
Proof-listened by Jessie Yun and Beth Thomas.
Project coordinated by Larry Wilson and Rob Board.
(2 hr 10 min)
Chapters
| Act 1 | 49:57 | Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
| Act 2 | 37:50 | Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
| Act 3 | 42:43 | Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
Reviews
Good Melodrama
Donald Gilmore
Let's see we have a hero, a villain and two damsels in distress. The hero saves those damsels, marries one of them and the other gets her love interest. There is a comical character. Yes, meets the qualifications of a melodrama. The readers were good and brought life to the characters. I would recommend listening to this play.